WASHINGTON — Senators yesterday urged the Federal Aviation Administration to implement a 2005 recommendation that airlines be required to check the training histories of pilots they hire, an issue in a February air crash near Buffalo.

Mark Rosenker, the acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, told a Senate committee probing safety issues related to the FAA’s oversight of regional airlines that the board urged three years ago that airlines be required to request a pilot’s complete training history.

Officials for Colgan Air Inc. of Manassas, Va., have acknowledged they didn’t seek the training history of pilot Marvin Renslow when they hired him.